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Andrea Lee

Andrea Lee , a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, is the author of several books, including the novel “ Red Island House ,” which will be published in March, 2021.

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3 picks · 1983–1986

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BEING EVERYWHERE
profiles ·

PROFILE of Luciano Benetton, sportswear magnate. Writer attended the opening of a Benetton store in Czechoslovakia--an event that would mark the debut of …

Quilts
our far flung correspondents ·

The author returns to her Aunt Lucy’s house in Ahoskie, North Carolina, in search of a patchwork quilt.

In France
fiction ·

Sarah, a pretty, light-skinned black girl from Philadelphia, graduated Harvard at 21. When her father died of a stroke, she discarded and loathed …